CANDIDA HOFER. BOLOGNA SERIES

German photographer Candida Höfer makes large-format photographs of empty interiors and social spaces that capture the psychology of social architecture. In this small volume, her photographs of libraries maintain their monumental feel. They are sober and restrain ed, disturbed by neither visitors nor users, though Höfer forgoes any staging of the locations. As Michael Kimmelman writes in The N ew York Times, Ms. Höfer is a straight photographer whose humanity and improvisatory spirit come across if we are patient enough to appreciat...[Read more]